How to read kindle books on Ubuntu 9.10? I googled and tried the wine with Kindle for PC and that didn't work. Mebbe I did somethig wrong. Anway, I have a very nice EEE that I love having Ubuntu on it and am desperately trying to avoid the Windows OS, but the Kindle app. is most important. Wonder if Amazon or open source software solutions are in sight?
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I hope we'll understand well. So - i'm offering to earn few dollars for few hours of Your time doing something quite interesting. From long time all my activities connected with computers are painful because me eyes are becoming tired very fast, which cause headache and generally make work impossible.
Cure for my problems is e-ink, im in possesion of Amazon kindle 3 now and it's beyond awesome for me. I've checked a lot of sites and keywords about ' e-ink monitor ', or desktop display, or using e-ink reader as computer display - and at this moment there isn't single device od market with such a function, but a lot of prototypes.
I've found also, that almost all e-ink readers are functioning on linux. My knowledge about linux is less than none, but some people written, that it should be possible to somehow make kindle a display for pc by making some linux operations on both
devices. What i'm asking You is not:- informing me about disadvantages of e-ink display, framerates, movies, speed and any other things, i don't care about any of those at all
- informing me about some crap imitations of e-ink like pixel qi, anything which isn't exactly e-ink is in my book worth nothing in terms of comfortable work with text.What i'm really asking is someone that will seriously try to make amazon kindle a monitor/display for netbook/notebook/pc. I'm really not geek at all, so i will not understand any of details, i'm asking someone to do it - and write precise, step by step guide for me which will tell me what i should do to use my kindle as computer display.
It may need change of OS, it may cause lose of data, it doesn't matters - what i need is fully operational internet browser with mouse and keyboard - on e-ink. So kindle attached to any kind of pc/netbook as display will be great. If task need some changes with hardware, or inside device - i can buy the one that You will modify from You after i will see pictures as proof that it works. If someone will help me - i will pay. It's quite hard for me to somehow ' prove it here ' - but i just will, we will work out Your fee and other details.
I'm looking for alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader, a slim free PDF Reader with browser plugin, for example for Iceweasel.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have openSUSE 11.2, 64 bits. I use Evince from the very beginning. Since a few weeks, when I want to open a .pdf file, Acrobat Reader appears and reads my file. It seems to have become the default reader now. However, I never wanted to change from Evince :this simple program is well enough for me. I tried various ways, but I can't define Evince as my default .pdf reader. How can I make Evince to become my default reader again please ?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have some compatibility questions/concerns about switching my os. on my current windows 7 os, i transfer purchases to my pc kindle, then, once on my pc kindle account, i go to the manage my kindle account and transfer to my windows 7 by dl an azw file which i then transfer to my kindle. (i don't have a wireless card/router so i have to transfer via usb i also like this because i don't get charged?) what is whisper net? i know its not a free service?
what i want to be able to do is, (i heard calibre can access my amazon account directly from the interface but not sure if that's really true or if only true on 7 and not ubuntu) if it is true, can i still buy free/paid books for my kindle3, transfer them to calibre/or kindle pc thru wine, "manage my account" on calibre/kindle wine then dl the azw file, transfer the azw to my home folder on ubuntu, then copy/paste to my kindle3 folder on my kindle?
Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.
I had it working. After it installed, it ran and everything worked. After I closed it, I can find no way to start it again. I can not find any kindle application, anywhere.
I can not fine anything about kindle anywhere in my /home/walter/.wine directory.
Application->Wine->Programs shows me nothing.
Another problem, Amazon downloads books into /root/My Kindle Content. The only way for me to read my kindle books is chmod my /root directory, which I don't like doing.
Is there any way to remove the DRM, so I can use Calibre to view the book in an epub format? Instead of having to fight with this evil amazon format?
My multimedia card reader does not work with new ubuntu version fresh install:
lsusb says:
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Bus 001 Device 002: alcor micro corp. multimedia card reader
dmesg:
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[6.544269] usb-storage: device scan complete
[6.544848] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[6.545482] scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic USB CF Reader 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[6.546102] scsi 2:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic USB SM Reader 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[6.546728] scsi 2:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic USB MS Reader 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[6.547227] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[6.547338] sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[6.547439] sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[6.547550] sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0 .....
I'm having some issues with DVD playback. Blu-ray playback is not an issue (at least no more than it is for anyone else using Linux), but when I try to play a DVD the video is garbled and choppy, same as the audio. (see attached picture).
I'm using an Asus BR-04B2T blu-ray reader and an Evgo nVidia gtx460 with nvidia-current drivers.
I removed the blu-ray drive and put a friends dvd drive into my computer to test and see if it's the graphics card or the drive, and the DVD player worked perfectly, flawless playback, so I know it's the drive.
Also the drive is not faulty. Both DVD and Blu-Ray work fine under my windows 7 partition.
I forgot to mention, VLC behaves the same as all other players, as shown in this picture. Also you can almost make out that I'm trying to watch the Simpson's box set my friend got me.
how can i set up my ubuntu 10.10 in order to use amazon kindle?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI searched through this forum and the Wine DB before trying, but found so little real data that I decided to just try it. I got this far and would appreciate someone with more expertise looking at the result and what to try next.
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The kindle device is seen as per lsusb:
Code: Select allmax@max-debian:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
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But this is my output of calibre debug device detection
calibre 2.20 isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.8 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '3.2.0-4-amd64', '#1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1')
Python 2.7.9
Linux: ('debian', '7.8', '')
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what does exactly means that device error?
I bought a kindle dx the other day. When I wanted to copy some pdf files to kindle attached to my pc running Debian testing, I found I could not do that. Once the files began being written, kindle disconnected from my pc !
View 4 Replies View RelatedI do a bit of programming and tinkering with Linux so I have to refer to documentation a lot. As a result my eyes do get sore when reading through documentation on PC. Another problem is when tinkering and something goes wrong, either with Ubuntu crashing or loss of internet connection, I can't get access to the relevant document to fix it. Because of these, I was thinking of getting an e-reader, in particular, an Amazon Kindle as it is the only one I've seen sold locally as I don't like buying electronic goods online as it is a hassle with shipping if anything goes wrong.
I would like some advice. Is the Kindle worth having to view documentation and tutorials? Is it easy to reference relevant material through it's search facilities? Most important of all, can it connect to (Ubuntu) Linux through a usb port?
I've been searching for Kindle applications for Linux and I can only find one that relies on Wine (which I absolutely hate). Does anybody know whether there's any application out there that allows to view kindle formats without relying on Wine?
View 9 Replies View Relatedtrying to find the best pdf reader. adobe reader is ok but with 10-11 pdfs opened, scrolling through each pdf, it gets kind of annoying having to physically click the inside of each pdf to scroll down, instead of switching tabs, and getting focus automatically
the default PDF viewer is pretty slow. i have about 200 pages with a great amount of images and adobe reader searched a lot faster. i find myself having to wait about 40-45 seconds for it to scan the whole PDF.
anyone have any suggestions out there on a better pdf reader?
I have installed ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition on my hp mini 1010nr. i went to upload some photos on my sd reader and nothing happened. is there some way to make ubuntu recognize the reader as a usb port.
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View 3 Replies View Relatedi am using for few years ubuntu gnome distributions. I am having lot of problems with my Dell Mini 9 and external display, ([URL] and i have lot of pdf books. I tried few readers but adobe was the best one (especially for scans of old books), but still, it can be very slow. Does anyone knows if it make any difference in performance if i switch to KDE or XFCE version? And maybe as subquestion-can i avoid my problems with external display freezing if i switch from gnome to some other desktop version?
validating feed with just 3 items currently in it. 10 minutes later while it was still "searching" the site I canceled. Clearly straw is not yet ready.What desktop rss aggregator do y'all recommend?
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wulu@MLP:~$ pcsc_scan
PC/SC device scanner
V 1.4.14 (c) 2001-2008, Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau@free.fr>
Compiled with PC/SC lite version: 1.4.99
Scanning present readers
0: O2 Micro Oz776 00 00 .....
Possibly identified card (using /home/wulu/.smartcard_list.txt):
3B 7D 96 00 00 80 31 80 65 B0 83 11 17 D6 83 00 90 00
DoD CAC card issued Jan 14, 2010
When I loaded the device in firefox's security devices, it loaded fine without any error, but does not allow me to login (the button is disabled). In the Details pane the status is shown as "not present".
Tech support installed a new computer for me at work yesterday and it's running 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10. I succeeded in installing Adobe Reader 9 (I need to review PDF documents in a number of PDF readers including Adobe as part of my job) but I can't open any PDFs using Reader. I ran "acroread" in the shell and it rendered this output:
Code: (acroread:17035): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (1179128842) I've tried Googling all this, but nothing helpful has been forthcoming.
There are two things that evince does not do that I need it to do:
1) In dual page viewing mode, it needs to know what to do with the first page. Sometimes the first page is a cover, and sometimes it is not. The facing pages are not correct if the first page is not a cover page, then evince does not place the facing pages on the same screen for me
2) I want to view pages using the best fit mode. I then click on a page in the side pane and the document suddenly changes back to fit page width mode. The "save current settings ad default" does nothing
Because of this, I would like either a fix or a recommendation for a better pdf reader.
I have all of my music on an SD card so it doesn't take up space on my hard drive. I put it into my SD card reader and ubuntu is all like, "gtfo doesn't exist."
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried evince, okular and foxit reader for linux and wasn't able to change background and foreground colours with them. I'm able to do this with foxit reader for windows, so unless I find something that runs natively on ubuntu, I'll try running it under wine.
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